Sunday, October 05, 2025
When Equal Treatment Feels like Discrimination - American Thinker
The counter-programming from secretary of War Pete Hegseth during his September 30 Quantico speech to top military brass doubtless received a frosty reception from at least some of the high-ranking commissioned officers who had grown accustomed to preferential treatment. - Todd Gregory, Erik Gregory
Dr. Thomas Sowell famously and rightly remarked when people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like discrimination.Consider the psychological mindset of a DIE-privileged general, perhaps someone like Hegseth’s predecessor (the race- and climate-obsessed Gen. Lloyd Austin) or Gen. C.Q. Brown, Jr., formerly of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, a vocal supporter of Black Lives Matter...
- Such officers sitting in the audience listening to Hegseth’s scary-sounding speech would feel singled out and offended by Hegseth’s demand for rigorous, uniform, meritocratic standards to be enforced. After all, that’s not how progressives understand the word equity.
- The DIE generals and admirals–turned–pronoun police might think (to themselves or zirselves): Hegseth was a mere platoon leader in Iraq, whereas I’m a two-star general who memorized von Clausewitz and studied military theory in the classroom at West Point. I’m credentialed, and I’ve sat in on important meetings with allied generals throughout the world.
- I’m far more accomplished than Hegseth, who attained only the rank of major in the military before becoming a right-wing pundit on Fox News. Who is Hegseth to lecture me about military readiness, or whether I need to get on Ozempic and commence daily P.T.? How dare this administration humiliate me, force me to come to Quantico, and listen to this crap?...
AG Bondi to Appeal 'Woefully Insufficient' Sentence for Justice Kavanaugh's Would-be Assassin
Will the next person who tries to assassinate a member of the GOP, or heaven forbid, Trump again, get community service and time served?... - Matt Vespa
Why?
- Well, because the suspect is now transgender.
- Even worse, the presiding judge took that into account at sentencing, giving Nicholas John Roske, aka ‘Sophia, only eight years for this attack on our judicial system.
The Justice Department was asking for 30 years.
- In 2022, Roske tried to assassinate the sitting Supreme Court justice, traveling from California to the Kavanaugh home, where he was arrested with zip ties, ammunition, a knife, and a Glock handgun.
- Roske got eight years for trying to assassinate a member of the Supreme Court.
That’s not only exceedingly lenient, but it’s also a perversion of justice...
Grieving families' fury exposes Democrats' gaslighting on crime
On Monday, as I watched the House Judiciary Committee convene its field hearing on violent crime in Charlotte, NC, it all came rushing back. - Jennifer Harrison
In April 2023, I testified before that same committee here in New York, in a hearing made necessary by the disastrous progressive policies implemented by a George Soros-funded district attorney and the state’s “soft-on-crime” laws.
Two years later, House members convened in Charlotte for the very same reason, in the wake of the horrific light-rail slaying of Iryna Zarutska.
In April 2023, I testified before that same committee here in New York, in a hearing made necessary by the disastrous progressive policies implemented by a George Soros-funded district attorney and the state’s “soft-on-crime” laws.
Steve Federico pointing to a photo of his late daughter Logan during his testimony about her murder at the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Oversight field hearing in Charlotte on Sept. 29, 2025.AP Photo/Nell Redmond
Two years later, House members convened in Charlotte for the very same reason, in the wake of the horrific light-rail slaying of Iryna Zarutska.
- Families shattered by murder and violent crime came to share their stories. Their words were gut-wrenching, their pain undeniable.
- They came armed with talking points and political spin, determined to discredit grieving parents and loved ones, and to invalidate the raw truth of what these families endure every single day.
- What we saw was grotesque...
We Were Right: Newsom's $20 Min. Wage Has Now Nuked 20,000 Fast Food Jobs, Cost Remaining Workers Thousands in Lost Hours
We Were Right: Newsom's $20 Min. Wage Has Now Nuked 20,000 Fast Food Jobs, Cost Remaining Workers Thousands in Lost Hours:
Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom promised just short of utopia when he signed California’s FAST Recovery Act.
Two years later, the only thing raising the state’s minimum wage for fast-food workers has accomplished is to kill jobs.
The Washington Examiner reported, the Employment Policies Institute found California has lost nearly 20,000 fast-food jobs since Newsom’s law took effect.
Editorial: Illinois superintendents cash in while students fall behind
Education’s dirty little secret in Illinois is that if you want to make the big bucks, you ditch the classroom for a cushy gig in administration. - The Editorial Board, Chicago Tribune
We should air that out in the open.
The Tribune’s recent analysis of 2024 salaries shed light on the pay of school district superintendents versus student achievement, highlighting some of the districts where the problem is worst...
The Tribune’s recent analysis of 2024 salaries shed light on the pay of school district superintendents versus student achievement, highlighting some of the districts where the problem is worst...
- We think it’s worth reflecting on superintendent pay in light of how much regular taxpayers in that district earn, as well as the property tax burden they’re forced to shoulder.
- Longtime Superintendent Kevin Nohelty, who retired after the 2024-25 school year, raked in a base salary of $450,000 for serving as CEO of this relatively small district...
- Under Nohelty, the district was deeply troubled academically. Just 19% of students were proficient in reading, and a dismal 6.6% were proficient in math in 2024.
But what’s happening in Dolton is just one example...
History for October 5
History for October 5 - On-This-Day.com
Chester A. Arthur (U.S.) 1830
- 1921 - The World Series was broadcast on the radio for the first time. The game was between the New York Giants and the New York Yankees.
- 1947 - U.S. President Harry S Truman held the first televised presidential address from the White House. The subject was the current international food crisis.
- 1985 - An Egyptian policeman went on a shooting rampage at a Sinai beach. Seven Israeli tourists were killed. The policeman died in prison the following January of an apparent suicide.
- 1988 - In a debate between candidates for vice president of the U.S., Democratic Lloyd Bentsen told Republican Dan Quayle, "You're no Jack Kennedy."
- 2006 - Walmart rolled out its $4 generic drug program to the entire state of Florida after a successful test in the Tampa area.
Saturday, October 04, 2025
Unconstitutionally vague: IRS scheme used to attack conservative organizations struck down! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Unconstitutionally vague: IRS scheme used to attack conservative organizations struck down! * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
The judge said the IRS violated constitutional protections by denying the tax-exempt status the organization requested.
"The ruling held that the agency's 'facts and circumstances' framework, an 11-part analysis derived from a 2004 IRS revenue ruling, fails to survive the heightened scrutiny required when government rules implicate First Amendment speech rights," the report said.
The joy of war films | Tom Jones | The Critic Magazine
We’re short of 200 pilots. Those we have are tired, strained, and all overdue for relief. We’re fighting for survival. Losing...Tom Jones
Gentlemen, you’re missing the essential truth. We’re short of 200 pilots. Those we have are tired, strained, and all overdue for relief. We’re fighting for survival. Losing. We don’t need a big wing or a small wing. We need pilots. And a miracle.The miracle comes.
- A lost German bomber accidentally drops its bombs on London, the RAF retaliates by dropping bombs on Berlin, and Hitler orders London razed.
- The let up takes the pressure off the RAF’s airfields and means German fighters have only enough fuel for ten minutes’ combat.
Through a relentless series of dizzying dogfights...the tide slowly turns, culminating on the 15th September.
The next day, across the Channel, German forces withdraw from the coast and Göring leaves the front.
The next day, across the Channel, German forces withdraw from the coast and Göring leaves the front.
The pilots are shown waiting anxiously, exhaustedly, for another scramble call that never comes.
Dowding steps out of his office to look up at a clear blue sky; the strings swell, and so do the tears in my eyes...
If you watch Charlie Kirk’s debates, there’s something you’ll see in almost all of them.
It’s easy to miss until it’s pointed out to you, but once you’re aware, you’ll notice every time. -Wildfire Whispers@WildfireWhisper
- Asks his opponent to state their argument
- Asks them to define terms
- If they struggle with either, he offers one to them and asks if it’s FAIR
2. His second (and most important) mission is to find something, no matter how small, on which he can say the magical phrase: “I AGREE”
- Here’s the pattern I’ve observed:
- Asks his opponent to state their argument
- Asks them to define terms
- If they struggle with either, he offers one to them and asks if it’s FAIR
2. His second (and most important) mission is to find something, no matter how small, on which he can say the magical phrase: “I AGREE”
- Human beings WANT to be agreed with. It’s a fundamental drive...Read ALL!!
BIZARRE new facts about January 6 pipe bombs revealed | Blaze Media
BIZARRE new facts about January 6 pipe bombs revealed | Blaze Media:
“The other is mysterious data, or data that has mysteriously disappeared. And it was when the FBI was doing geofence searches. They went to all the major cell carriers and asked for all the precise data of people who were in that area on January 5 and 6,” Loudermilk explains.
Hey Portland Police: you made a big freaking mistake.
You thought arresting me would make me shut up and go away. - Nick Sortor@nicksortor
You PROVED what we’ve all been saying for years: you’re CORRUPT and CONTROLLED by violent Antifa thugs who terrorize the streets
You PROVED what we’ve all been saying for years: you’re CORRUPT and CONTROLLED by violent Antifa thugs who terrorize the streets
- You thought arresting me would make me shut up and go away.
- You couldn’t have been more wrong.
Stay tuned.
Consequences! Federal shutdown hits $18 billion in projects in Schumer's state * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Consequences! Federal shutdown hits $18 billion in projects in Schumer's state * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh:
The federal government went into a partial shutdown mode on Wednesday after Democrats demanded an extraordinary $1.5 trillion in spending for a wide range of their constituencies, including Obamacare subsidies, illegal aliens and leftist propaganda.
And one of the first consequences was an $18 billion hit to the state represented by Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who led the battle for the shutdown.
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